Travel & Places · Emoji 1.0
🛬Airplane Arrival Emoji
Generally, the 🛬 emoji means you've arrived, landed, or a flight is ending. It’s a quick way to show you’re at your destination.
The 🛬 emoji is an airplane with its wing flaps down.
- Unicode
- U+1F6EC
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :airplane_
arriving: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🛬 Airplane Arrival emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Airplane Arrival emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the airplane arrival has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Airplane Arrival emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :airplane_arriving:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the airplane arrival, code point U+1F6EC.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🛬 Airplane Arrival emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Airplane Arrival emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the airplane arrival as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Airplane Arrival emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around airplane arrival for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🛬 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🛬 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the airplane arrival lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
🛬 vs ✈️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Airplane Arrival
Code: U+1F6EC · added 2015
Shortcode: :airplane_arriving:
Generally, the 🛬 emoji means you've arrived, landed, or a flight is ending.
Unicode name: Airplane
Code: U+2708 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :airplane:
Generally, the ✈️ emoji just means airplane.
11 — History
Where the 🛬 Airplane Arrival emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F6EC never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Airplane Arrival was approved as U+1F6EC and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🛬 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ